Geoffrey W. Sutton PhD, Psychology and Culture

HEALING  PRAYER Not a week goes by that I don’t see a request for prayers on Facebook or via email. Pain and suffering touches every one. People of all ages.  Growing up in UK and US Pentecostal churches, I learned that people pray for healing.      There was anointing with oil.           Loud pleas for healing                Reminders to God, that he promised healing                     And there were stories of what God had done. As I grew and decades passed, Pentecostals got older Pain and suffering persisted       People found relief through medical care            But they continued to pray and hope                 Prayers for healing spread beyond Pentecostal churches             ...